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[...]I want my being here to be useful. Oh my God, I have hero delusions! I want my very presence to make some difference. How very white of me.

Good travel is like good reading: you go inside a new world and cannot resist it.

Tolstoy has been dead for one hundred years, yet Anna Karenina is alive and beloved in Rangoon. It is extraordinary that something so still, so lifeless - black type on the cheap paper of Penguin's classic pocketbook - can contain a living world. A Burmese man can step into a time machine and go to nineteenth-century Russia just by turning one page, then another, and another, until he is entangled emotionally and intellectually in fictional lives. Strangers become his familiars.